Sexual trauma, psychosis, and betrayal in Antonia White's autobiographical fiction : a critical examination of the Freudian perspective

In Catholic writer Antonia White’s series of autobiographical novels, Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, and Beyond the Glass, readers are presented with a Freudian Oedipal drama that sends the main protagonist spiraling into psychosis and then back into her father’s arms upon recove...

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Main Author: Newton, Marcia Anne
Other Authors: Parry, Glenys
Published: University of Sheffield 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648017